Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance
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Msg-id 4C6591D9.1080206@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance  (Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We recomment 'data=writeback' for ext3 in our docs
>

Only for the WAL though, which is fine, and I think spelled out clearly
enough in the doc section you quoted.  Ken's system has one big RAID
volume, which means he'd be mounting the data files with 'writeback'
too; that's the thing to avoid.

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